Linux-Hardware Digest #109, Volume #10 Tue, 27 Apr 99 21:14:21 EDT
Contents:
Re: pb with graphic card Trident (Eric)
Re: 3DFXBanshee ("HiVizDiver")
ess solo sound config. ? never ? (Ross)
Re: Upgrade Linux after hardware upgrades question (Eric)
Re: Winbond W89C840F Ethernet Card (Strata1888)
Re: Problems with Mill II + Iiyama 502pro, with Win98 AND Linux ("Tommy Kelly")
Re: Programmers are gods (Jerry McBride)
Re: SCSI problem (Eric)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Tor Iver
Wilhelmsen)
samsung 800 xconf??? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane?= GUEGAN)
Re: Best Dual (Slot 2?) Motherboard Needed ("David Travers")
Re: smp support in linux experimental? ("David Travers")
Re: good networking card for linux ("David Travers")
Re: stinit.dev (really stinit.def) file for HP T20 (Travan 5) tape (David Watson)
CD-RW drive via PCMCIA SCSI drivers? (astrodud)
Re: Programmers are gods (Keith)
Re: Programmers are gods (John Burton)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Chris
Costello)
Re: Programmers are gods (westprog)
stinit.dev file for HP T20 (Travan 5) tape drive? (David Watson)
Re: Programmers are gods (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: Can SlackWare do it? (jik-)
pb with graphic card Trident (Guy CLOUVEL)
Re: CD-ROM keeps spinning down (Eric)
3d-videocards (Felix Janssen)
Some advice needed for videocard (Ben Janssen)
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pb with graphic card Trident
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 21:48:41 +0000
Guy CLOUVEL wrote:
> Hi,
> Sorry for my poor english !
> I have problem to install Linux (from a Suse 6.0 package) with a graphic
> card chipset Trident TGUI 9440 apparently non supported by Linux; I
> can't configure Xwindow in any way. However, this card seems to be very
> frequently installed on Olivetti Computers like mine... How do I get
> around this?
> Can't thank you enough for helping me !
> Guy
try some generic VGA X server, quality will be poor (probably 16 colors)
but it should work on (virtually) every VGA card.
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From: "HiVizDiver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3DFXBanshee
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:00:27 -0400
Yep, I'm pretty sure you need glibc. Most newer Linux distros use glibc.
-Jeff
--
Jeff Wilson
"Gentlemen! There's no fighting in here! This is the War Room!" - Dr.
Strangelove
David Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Carlos Jes�s wrote:
> >
> > Hello, I need a server to Creative Blaster 3DFX Banshee
> > not based on glibc, or somebody explain me how configurate
> > this PCI-board with XF86Setup.
>
> The only X server for the 3DFx Banshee that I know of can be found at:
>
> http://glide.xxedgexx.com/
>
> Don't know if it needs glibc or not.
>
> Good luck,
> --
> _
> __| |_ David P. Huff | "Linux: Because reboots
> \_ _} [EMAIL PROTECTED] | are for upgrades."
> \_( Texas Instruments, Inc. |
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From: Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ess solo sound config. ? never ?
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 23:18:11 +0000
I have an ess solo chip on my new IBM Aptiva m/c.
Is this a hopeless task to get this working. What options should be
selected in kernel., I have tried Sound blaster compatible with IRQ's
used by windows and DMA used by DOS emulation.
No joy.
Hopeless ?
Any ideas appreciated.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrade Linux after hardware upgrades question
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 22:34:15 +0000
Mountaingoat wrote:
> Before I do any damage to my crowning achievment of a quadboot
> setup...
>
> I set up a system that boots from M$'s boot.ini to either Win98,
> NT4WS, x86 Solaris and RH5.1
>
Wow ! impressive !
the boot.ini thing is just so funny !
>
> The original system was based on a FIC PA2007/P166MMX with 64MB RAM,
> three hard drives, a serial mouse and a Sportster 33.6
>
> The system has now been upgraded to a FIC503+/AMD K6-2 450mHz with 128
> MB SDRAM, PS/2 mouse, Zoom 2925 PCI modem and the same three hard
> drives.
>
> Needless to say, I need to reinstall Linux and I have in my hot little
> hand a copy of RH5.2.
>
you don't have to re-install your system, you just have to configure X to
use the PS/2 mouse. The only difficulty is that PCI card modem (probably
a winmodem ?) are not actually supported by Linux.
>
> I don't have a lot of data in the installation so losing that wouldn't
> be a tragedy. My main concern is for all the work I put into getting
> this to work, mostly in partitioning and managing the boot sector,
> which I did with Bootpart, and in setting up the dialup.
>
> What's going to happen when I boot off the CD and start the install?
> Can I aavoid losing the boot info? (I have a recent NT ERD)
> Will I loose the answer file for my dialup?
re-installing is just a totally time loss. In last resort upgrading ...
if you really want to use your new cd !
If you want to keep all of your hardly configured system ... the safest
is to upgrade by hand at package level
>
>
> Thanks for any help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Strata1888)
Subject: Re: Winbond W89C840F Ethernet Card
Date: 27 Apr 1999 22:36:03 GMT
Thank you for the advice. I downloaded the source code and tried following
D.B.'s instructions, but I didn't get very far, probably because I barely know
what compiling and source code are. I decided to return the machine and start
over with a bare-bones box and then add in cards which are know to work.
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From: "Tommy Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.matrox,comp.os.ms-windows.video
Subject: Re: Problems with Mill II + Iiyama 502pro, with Win98 AND Linux
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 19:58:49 +0100
Tommy Kelly wrote in message <7ftio1$2qf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Problem is, after installing the Matrox driver in Win98 I get vertical red
>lines - about a character width (in lo res) apart.
I've just tried a different card - an old GXE 64 Pro from NumberNine.
Although it is of much lower performance than the Matrox, it gives
me a completely clean display.
I am concluding that the RAM on my Millenium II is damaged.
It's going back to the supplier tomorrow.
thanks to all who made suggestions,
t
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry McBride)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Programmers are gods
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:58:13 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus) wrote:
>
>Comments never hurt.
>
Boy! That's a rule that I live by. Because of it, I can pickup a piece of
z80 from 1980 that I wrote, I able to understand what it was I was doing and
maybe even thing at the time... Talk about "a blast from the past". :')
>Comment everything that looks remotely like
>anyone could have problems understanding it. That's my way to do it.
>The people who have got to edit my code can always strip out
>superfluous comments.
>
I'm often accused of writing good books instead of good code. But hey, at least
the plot is easy to follow.... :')
--
/--------------------\
| Jerry McBride |
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
\--------------------/
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: SCSI problem
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 22:13:45 +0000
did you have problem accessing your cdrom drive ? (if not your config is just
old, but ok !)
Steven Walter wrote:
> Can someone help me make sense of these error messages? I'm using an
> ancient CD-ROM sound card/SCSI controller. I get this during startup of
> Debian 2.1. Thanks
>
> -Steve
>
> scsi0 : at 0x0388 irq 10 options CAN_QUEUE=32 CMD_PER_LUN=2 release=3
> generic options AUTOPROBE_IRQ AUTOSENSE PSEUDO DMA UNSAFE generic release=7
>
> eata_dma: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver release still depends on
> it.
>
> Skipping scan for PCI HBAs.
>
> eata_pio: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver release still depends on
> it.
>
> Skipping scan for PCI HBAs.
>
> Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
>
> megaraid: PCI bios not present.
>
> scsi0 : Pro Audio Spectrum-16 SCSI
>
> scsi : 1 host.
>
> Vendor: SANYO Model: CRD-400I Rev: 1.41
>
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
>
> scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries.
>
> SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
>
> NCR5380 : coroutine is running.
>
> STATUS_REG: 00
>
> BASR: 10
>
> ICR: 00
>
> MODE: 00
>
> scsi0 : REQ not asserted, phase unknown.
>
> NCR5380 core release=7. PAS16 release=3
>
> Base Addr: 0x00000 io_port: 0388 IRQ: 10.
>
> Highwater I/O busy_spin_counts -- write: 0 read: 0
>
> NCR5380 : coroutine is running.
>
> scsi0: no currently connected command
>
> scsi0: issue_queue
>
> scsi0: disconnected_queue
>
> scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 3, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun
> 1 Request Sense 20 00 00 10 00
>
> scsi0 : aborting command
>
> scsi0 : destination target 1, lun 1
>
> command = Request Sense 20 00 00 10 00
>
> NCR5380 : coroutine is running.
>
> STATUS_REG: 00
>
> BASR: 18
>
> ICR: 00
>
> MODE: 00
>
> scsi0 : REQ not asserted, phase unknown.
>
> NCR5380 core release=7. PAS16 release=3
>
> Base Addr: 0x00000 io_port: 0388 IRQ: 10.
>
> Highwater I/O busy_spin_counts -- write: 0 read: 0
>
> NCR5380 : coroutine is running.
>
> scsi0: no currently connected command
>
> scsi0: issue_queue
>
> scsi0: disconnected_queue
>
> scsi0 : aborting command
>
> scsi0 : destination target 1, lun 1
>
> command = Request Sense 20 00 00 10 00
>
> NCR5380 : coroutine is running.
>
> STATUS_REG: 00
>
> BASR: 18
>
> ICR: 00
>
> MODE: 00
>
> scsi0 : REQ not asserted, phase unknown.
>
> NCR5380 core release=7. PAS16 release=3
>
> Base Addr: 0x00000 io_port: 0388 IRQ: 10.
>
> Highwater I/O busy_spin_counts -- write: 0 read: 0
>
> NCR5380 : coroutine is running.
>
> scsi0: no currently connected command
>
> scsi0: issue_queue
>
> scsi0: disconnected_queue
>
> scsi0 : warning : SCSI command probably completed successfully
>
> before abortion
>
> scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom total.
>
> Partition check:
>
> hda: hda1 hda2
>
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
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Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
From: Tor Iver Wilhelmsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 27 Apr 1999 21:28:47 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Allen) writes:
> The Macs ran software to talk NFS and would happily pass filenames
> with '/' in them.
PC MacLan is smart enough to be aware that the Mac can send filenames
that include characters Windows dosen't like, and rewrites them into
[dec], e.g. [47] for /.
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane?= GUEGAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: samsung 800 xconf???
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:42:00 +0100
does anybody know how to setup the xconfig for a samsung sens800???
thanx
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From: "David Travers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
intel.motherboards.pentium_ii,alt.comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Best Dual (Slot 2?) Motherboard Needed
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 00:24:38 +0100
Maybe not cheap but we are using the Supermicro P6DGU motherboard, and it it
a good quality board.
Currently supports upto 2 X Pentium II 450Mhz, 2GB ECC Ram and has on-board
U2W scsi, Ultra SCSI and UltraWide scsi buses. Uses Intel GX chipset.
BIOS upgradeble to support Pentium III processor's.
Current price around �320 in the UK.
We have SMP Linux running on Ultra2 SCSI hard disks and performance is
nothing short of amazing for the price.
NS wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>x-no-archive: yes
>
>I want to buy a dual-processor motherboard which is cheap and will
>offer me an upgrade path to futher Intel processors (Pentium III, so on)
>-
>which to me means supporting Slot 2 (and the GX and NX chipsets).
>Somehone have motherboard recommendations, or am I stupid to think
>that I can get a motherboard like this? Your advice is welcomed.
>
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From: "David Travers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: smp support in linux experimental?
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 00:20:07 +0100
Try using the new 2.2 kernel (currently at 2.2.6)
We have SMP running on our Linux box. So far no problems (touch wood)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
<7g0u4c$j1j$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>> Experimental SMP (multiple CPU) support is included in kernel 1.3.31
>> and newer. Check the Linux/SMP Project page for details and updates.
>>
>> � Linux/SMP Project
>> <http://www.linux.org.uk/SMP/title.html>
>
> excerpt from linux Hardware-HOWTO. So when is linux
>smp support not going to be considered experimental anymore?
>
> Seems like lots of people are using it with good success.
>Does anyone still consider it experimental and not ready for
>primtime?
>
>
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From: "David Travers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: good networking card for linux
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 00:18:11 +0100
Using the Netgear 310TX 10/100 BaseT card.
Uses the DEC Tulip chipset and works a treat under linux.
Voodoo Soup wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>im looking for a NIC card that will be supported under linux <redhat,
>or slackware> to put on a machine....can anyone recommend?
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:25:44 -0700
From: David Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: stinit.dev (really stinit.def) file for HP T20 (Travan 5) tape
Oops, apologies: I really didn't mean "stinit.dev"; of course I meant
stinit.def.
-David.
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From: astrodud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD-RW drive via PCMCIA SCSI drivers?
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 19:52:00 GMT
Hi all. I was wondering if anyone could share with me their experience getting
a CD-RW drive to work through the SCSI PCMCIA drivers in Linux? I am planning
to get a CD-RW drive for just that and would like to know if I should
reconsider.
Have you been able to treat the CD-RW drive as a rewritable drive, much like
a hard drive, or is that capability not yet built into Linux?
Would i have to upgrade from the 2.0.36 kernel?
thanks very much for any info.
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From: Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Programmers are gods
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 08:39:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<snip..>
>
> Comments never hurt. Comment everything that looks remotely like
> anyone could have problems understanding it. That's my way to do it.
> The people who have got to edit my code can always strip out
> superfluous comments.
Yep, and if they need to port it, strip out the superfluous code and the
comments should tell them what to do and how to do it. Give me well commented
code to maintain every time.
There's nothing worse than being given some code which has failed and has no
comments - except discovering that it was you who wrote is 5 years ago ;-)
Keith
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From: John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Programmers are gods
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:45:53 GMT
Andrew Fan wrote:
>
> Mechanical engineering needs the documentation because they need
> to work out the cost of each component and make effects to maximize
> profits. Also, the manufacturer can be held liable for any injuries/
> deaths caused by a badly designed part (if proven).
>
> For a motor manufacturer, they tend to reuse designs extensively,
> even in a "new" design. In other words, they design a "new" car
> by examining their components lists first, if a part does not fit
> the specification, then a new part is created.
>
> It would be really nice to be able to pick a software module off
> a supermarket shelf, stick it in your main loop and it'll interface
> perfectly. But then, does your company really need a software
> engineer to go shopping? Couldn't the secretary do it?
By the same token, since, as you mentioned, virtually all parts for a
motor are available "off the shelf" why not send the secretary out to
purchase the parts and then have her/him put it together... according to
your argument, it should work...;-)
You *still* need the engineering skill to put the thing together. By the
same token, you *still* need the programming skill to put the program
components together as a cohesive whole...
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Costello)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:30:12 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johan Kullstam wrote:
> the problem is that we need out-of-band markers for the punctuation.
> i am not sure if '\0' is allowed in filenames either.
Of course not! '\0' would be the null-terminator on the
string passed to open(2)!
> i'd suggest claiming the control chars and reserving them for system
> usage. stuff like ^D really has no place in a sane filename. i'd
> even go so far as suggest that `:' and starting a filename with `-' be
> banned as well. i am sure others will insist upon tradition and
> disagree.
I insist upon tradition and disagree.
>
> --
> J o h a n K u l l s t a m
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Don't Fear the Penguin!
--
Chris Costello
DYNAMIC LINKING ERROR: Your mistake is now everywhere.
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From: westprog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Programmers are gods
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:07:42 GMT
In article <7g48fc$70f$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donal K. Fellows) wrote:
> In article <7g3t49$8m2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There's nothing worse than being given some code which has failed
> > and has no comments - except discovering that it was you who wrote
> > is 5 years ago ;-)
> Yes there is. Finding that you've only got the stripped static
> binary. No comments, no source, no linker symbols. I've done it
> once, and hope never to do it again.
There is a guilty pleasure to be had in hand-disassembling a piece of code and
patching in the fix.
J.
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:20:41 -0700
From: David Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: stinit.dev file for HP T20 (Travan 5) tape drive?
Hi,
Has anyone developed a correct stinit.dev file for the HP T20e/T20i
Travan-5 (10GB native) SCSI tape drives?
Also, where can I find out how to decode the density code returned by
'mt status'? My T20e returns 0x47, and I can't seem to find a way to
parse that, which looks like a bitmap -- or is it just an arbitrary
magic number?
Thanks,
-David.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Programmers are gods
Date: 27 Apr 1999 15:07:07 -0500
In article <7g43if$34o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Donal K. Fellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <7g203t$18u2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Leslie Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I thought we were talking about program development. The internals
>> of these programs have changed enormously over the years.
>
>But sendmail still speaks SMTP and works with UNIX mailboxes (and uses
>sendmail.cf - oh well :^)
>
>Apache still talks HTTP and works with CGI scripts.
>
>Perl hasn't changed majorly since the jump to v5 (which was widely
>announced, in case you missed it.)
>
>The interfaces that matter and the desired security properties are
>well known in all cases. How exactly those are implemented is not as
>important, and in any case, the algorithms are not part of the spec.
But that has nothing to do with the earlier discussion regarding
to modification to the code itself. Perhaps I should have quoted
more of the context. The previous contention was that changes
had to be made to a design document and commented before the
coding changes were done, yet we have these programs that run
the internet where many chunks were contributed by many people
and then merged into the next version correctly, perhaps with
a new design to accomodate them. Where is the correspondingly
useful set of programs where someone circulates the design
document first and the contributors fill in the gaps to assemble
the whole?
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:25:07 -0700
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can SlackWare do it?
Alan W. Jurgensen wrote:
>
> I have an older OPTi 82C929 sound card with proprietary panasonic CR-562
> CD-ROM...
>
> I'm tring to install Red-Hat 5.2 ... no dice. Have tried
> soundblaster/panasonic CD-ROM type... but wont detect it.
>
> So, Ive verified it works in dos with Opti Sound/CD-ROM drivers...
>
> Tried Toms 1 Disk Linux system... and tried loading isp16 cd-rom driver which
> states opti support... It seems to load and detect
> cdrom interface ok... BUT how to access drive? what is the device file? HELP
> !
>
> Does slackware have support for this drive/card combo?
Slackware most likel;y will not have any more or less hardware support
then redhat. They use the same kernel and underlying drivers, even a
lot of the same software. It is in the setup and software areas that
they differ,...not in the kernel or drivers.
That asid, the drive numbers are going to be
hda - primary master
hdb - primary slave
hdc - secondary master
hdd - secondary slave
the scsi disks are going to be
scd0 for the first scsi cdrom....not sure if scd is used for normal scsi
drives but I reacall using sd0 for the paralel zip on my dad's PC.
You have to mount this drive before you can access it unless your doing
raw writing or formatting.
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From: Guy CLOUVEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pb with graphic card Trident
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 22:32:29 +0200
Hi,
Sorry for my poor english !
I have problem to install Linux (from a Suse 6.0 package) with a graphic
card chipset Trident TGUI 9440 apparently non supported by Linux; I
can't configure Xwindow in any way. However, this card seems to be very
frequently installed on Olivetti Computers like mine... How do I get
around this?
Can't thank you enough for helping me !
Guy
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-ROM keeps spinning down
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 00:55:52 +0000
Michael Hucka wrote:
> I'm running Red Hat 5.2 on a Gateway E-4200 Pentium-II system. For some
> reason, the CD-ROM drive spins down a few seconds after accessing the CD.
> This leads to a real problem when you're trying to copy data off -- the
> drive spins up, spins down, spins up, spins down, etc., taking forever to
> complete the reading process.
>
did you have this problem with all the CD's you're trying to read ?
because the pb you descriibe can be caused by dust covering the surface of
the CDROM !
>
> Is there a utility that would let me adjust the timeout parameters on the
> drive?
>
> --
> Michael Hucka, Ph.D. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> GENESIS Development Group, Division of Biology, Caltech
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From: Felix Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3d-videocards
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 21:37:06 +0200
Hi
For what recent 3d-videocard are there drivers for Linux which work
pretty good??
--
He who drives and phones simultaniously is stupid!
Visit the renewed http://www.edoropolis.org/thundur !
FElix--
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From: Ben Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Some advice needed for videocard
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:15:37 +0200
Hi!
I'm planning to buy a new computer and I don't know what
videocard I should get, because someone told me there aren't
good Linux-drivers for all videocards. I had in mind to buy the
Diamond Viper v550 3d card. I was adviced to buy the Matrox
Millennium g220 card.
Question: Which 3d-videocard works good with Linux/FreeBSD...
Thanks answering in forward!
THundur--
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